A strange little side quest
Bomb It has plenty of company in a long tradition of players chasing timing, patterns and better decisions. Barbie Fashion Designer became a major software hit in 1996, selling more than 500,000 copies in two months and proving there was a large audience for fashion-focused computer play. The same trail leads to another fact: Street Fighter II, released in 1991, turned head-to-head arcade fighting into a worldwide phenomenon and helped define the modern fighting-game genre. That is the kind of background detail that makes another attempt at Bomb It feel a bit more connected to the history of play.
